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Product Life Cycle Management – The 4 Stages and How to Manage Them

Mar 23rd, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 15 min read

Product life cycle management is a lot like growing up – when you’re young, everything is new, exciting, and bursting with opportunity. In your teens, you could be whoever you…

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Everything You Need to Know About Competitive Product Analysis

Mar 21st, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 17 min read

At the risk of sounding like a hastily-written wedding speech, it’s sometimes worth kicking things off with a good old-fashioned dictionary definition – as a means to perfectly crystalize a…

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How to Nail Your Product Management Team Structure

Mar 16th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 15 min read

How to structure a product management team is one of the most common challenges facing companies as they grow. And for good reason! Product is the beating heart of any…

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How to Implement a Product Discovery Process, Step by Step

Mar 9th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 16 min read

Implementing a proper product discovery process will save you time and money in the long run. But spoiler alert: the product discovery process is not linear. When we hear “discovery”…

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Product Designer vs Product Manager: What’s the Difference?

Mar 7th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 15 min read

Have you ever encountered an example of extreme form over function? Maybe, just as a wild example, a certain fruity company’s laptops chased thinness so much that their keyboards became…

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Product Designer vs Product Manager: What’s the Difference?

Mar 7th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 16 min read

Have you ever encountered an example of extreme form over function? Maybe, just as a wild example, a certain fruity company’s laptops chased thinness so much that their keyboards became…

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Product Designer vs Product Manager: What’s the Difference?

Mar 7th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 16 min read

Have you ever encountered an example of extreme form over function? Maybe, just as a wild example, a certain fruity company’s laptops chased thinness so much that their keyboards became…

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How To Write A Kick-Ass Product-Led Growth Strategy

Feb 28th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 14 min read

Imagine we’re playing a game of chess and, after a few opening moves, you realize that you’re just placing things around at random. You start losing key pieces, you’re suddenly…

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How To Write A Kick-Ass Product-Led Growth Strategy

Feb 28th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 14 min read

Imagine we’re playing a game of chess and, after a few opening moves, you realize that you’re just placing things around at random. You start losing key pieces, you’re suddenly…

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How To Write A Kick-Ass Product-Led Growth Strategy

Feb 28th, 2023 Product Janna Bastow 14 min read

Imagine we’re playing a game of chess and, after a few opening moves, you realize that you’re just placing things around at random. You start losing key pieces, you’re suddenly…

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